The Heartbleed bug has been all over the news during the last week. In addition to information on tech media outlets, a number of mainstream news outlets also covered this big story. Websites of all sizes sent emails to customers and members to encourage them to change their passwords because of the heartbleed bug. When news like this breaks and is shared, I would expect a huge number of domain registrations to follow.
Surprisingly, there were just 82 .com and .net domain name registrations with the name Heartbleed in them since the news of this problem went out. According to the Verisign DomainView Grapher Tool, the greatest spike in domain registrations appears to have taken place on April 9, when 25 domain names were hand registered.
If I were to have guessed without knowing the answer, I would have guessed that there were over 500 domain names registered. Although there isn’t much that could be done with Heartbleed domain names, I assume some Internet security companies could have used these domain names to pitch their wares. I also wouldn’t have been surprised to see legal or lawsuit domain names registered by law firms looking to sue someone for the problems that may or may not exist as a result of websites who may have issues.
With all of the news about the Heartbleed vulnerability, I was surprised that there were so few domain names registered with the this keyword. Not really sure what to make of this, but it was a surprise to me.
This is what I call ‘Moment Domaining” Domains of the moment. Soon forgotten.
Moment Domaining, reminds me of when Clint Eastwood was talking to the empty chair and how long was it until emptychair.com was registered..in moments.
themostinterestingdomainintheworld.com is still available, but not themostexpensivedomainintheworld.com…
…both heartbleeddomain.com and heartbleeddomains.com are also free for now…lol
The most memorable “domain of the moment” for me was what they said after they caught Saddam Hussein. Soon after, it occurred to me to check to see if it was regged, and it turned out none other than the king himself had gone and regged it. He still has it now and it’s parked…I’d let it drop, though, as it’s a dud, but I guess he likes having it. Lol. I’ll bet he might take issue with me calling it a dud though, but maybe not, lol.
The second anything ‘new’ is even suggested domainers like to have a punt.. Why not ay, some punts certainly do pay off. but not all 😉